Liberals often speak in seemingly harmless cliches that they hope will penetrate our mental defenses. Here are some of the most egregious examples.

Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to preventing the spread of extremist views is ensuring that like-minded groups encounter a diversity of opinions within civil society.

Just three weeks after Columbia's university senate voted in favor of engaging with ROTC, Columbia has announced it will reinstate its Navy ROTC program. Meanwhile, ROTC looks set to return to both Stanford and Yale.

In the two years since its enactment, the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement has gotten positive reviews from the governments of Chile and the United States. Not only has total trade increased by 85 percent, but decreased tariffs have stimulated increased diversity of goods. The good news is due, at least...

In The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms,, editors Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, examine how the politically correct imperative to promote "diversity"--of race, ethnicity, and gender, but not of ideas--has diverted higher education from its true purposes.

Conservative critics have complained about the leftward tilt of college and university faculty since the 1950s. In contrast, the American Association of University Professors and similar groups have either denied that such a tilt occurs or refused to acknowledge that a balanced ideological representation is needed to educate students in...

A vigorous entrepreneurial spirit was apparent at a translational research innovation symposium at Duke University--a determination to do something outside the usual academic practice.

Why Groups Go to ExtremesBy Cass R. SunsteinAEI Press, September 2008, $10.00